Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2005-12-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
10 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
Effects of the single-electron tunneling and the Coulomb blockade in a cluster structure (the molecular transistor) are investigated theoretically. In the framework of the particle-in-a-box model for the spherical and disk-shaped gold clusters, the electron spectrum, the temperature dependence of the chemical potential and the residual charge are calculated. We show that the residual charge is equal to the non-integer value of elementary charge $e$ and depends on the cluster's shape. The equations for the analysis of the current-voltage characteristic are used under conservation condition for the total energy of the structure taking into account the contact potential difference. Restrictions associated with the Coulomb instability of a cluster are introduced into the theory in a the simple way. It is shown that the critical charge of the cluster in the open electron system is close to the residual charge. For single-electron transistors based on small gold clusters the current gap and its voltage asymmetry are computed. We demonstrate that the current gap exhibits non-monotonic size dependences, which are related to the quantization of the electron spectrum and the Coulomb blockade.
Pogosov Valentin V.
Vasyutin Eugene V.
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